# List of ballets by George Balanchine

This is a list of ballets by George Balanchine (1904–1983), New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master.

## By company
### For Ballets Russes

* Le Chant du rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) (1925)
* Jack in the Box (1926)
* Pastorale (1926)
* Barabau (1926)
* La Chatte (1927)
* Le Triomphe de Neptune (1927)
* Apollo (1928)
* The Prodigal Son (1929)
* Le Bal (1929)

### For Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo

* Cotillon (1932)
* Concurrence (1932)
* Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1932 and 1944)
* Balustrade (1941)
* Danses concertantes (1944 and 1972)
* Song of Norway (1944)
* Pas de Deux (Grand adagio) (1945)
* La Sonnambula (1946)
* The Night Shadow (1946)
* Raymonda (1946)

### For Les Ballets 1933

* The Seven Deadly Sins (1933)
* Errante (1933)
* Les Songes (1933)
* Fastes (1933)

### For the American Ballet

* Alma Mater (1934)
* Les Songes (Dreams) (1934)
* Mozartiana (1934)
* Serenade (1935)
* Errante (1935)
* Reminiscence (1935)
* Jeu de cartes (variously, Card Game or The Card Party) (1937)
* Le Baiser de la Fée (originally titled The Fairy's Kiss) (1937)

### For Broadway

* Ziegfeld Follies of 1936
** Words without Music: A Surrealist Ballet, a production number for the singing and dancing ensemble
** Night Flight, a solo for Harriet Hoctor
** 5 A.M., a number for Josephine Baker and male dancers
* On Your Toes (1936), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart; starring Tamara Geva and Ray Bolger. This dramatic ballet served as the climax of this musical production and has subsequently been presented as a stand-alone piece; however, several of the sung numbers in the show featured dance routines as well, notably the title number.
** Princess Zenobia Ballet (1936)
** Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1936).
* Babes in Arms (1937), by Rodgers and Hart
* I Married an Angel (1938), by Rodgers and Hart; starring Vera Zorina
* The Boys from Syracuse (1938), by Rodgers and Hart
* Great Lady (1938), music by Frederick Loewe
* Keep Off the Grass (1940), a musical revue
* Louisiana Purchase (1940), music and lyrics by Irving Berlin; with William Gaxton and Vera Zorina
* Cabin in the Sky (1940), music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by John Latouche; starring Ethel Waters and Katherine Dunham, who collaborated with Balanchine on the choreography
* The Lady Comes Across (1942), by Duke and Latouche; a notable flop
* Rosalinda (1942), an operetta with music by Johann Strauss
* The Merry Widow (1943), an operetta with music by Franz Lehár
* What's Up? (1943), lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
* Dream with Music (1944), a musical fantasy starring Vera Zorina
* Song of Norway (1944), an operetta based on the life and music of Edvard Grieg; Balanchine's most successful Broadway show
* Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston (1945), another flop
* The Chocolate Soldier (1947), an operetta with music by Oscar Straus
* Where's Charley? lyrics and music by Frank Loesser, a long-running show starring Ray Bolger
* Courtin' Time (1951), music and lyrics by Don Walker and Jack Lawrence
* House of Flowers (1954), music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Truman Capote and Harold Arlen; starring Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, and Juanita Hall; Balanchine's choreography was rearranged by Herbert Ross before the Broadway opening

### For Hollywood

* The Goldwyn Follies (1938), with Vera Zorina and William Dollar as principal dancers
** "Romeo and Juliet," with ballet dancers as the Capulets and tap dancers as the Montagues
** "Water Nymph Ballet," in which Zorina rose from the depths of a pool
* On Your Toes (1939), the film version of the Broadway show, starring Vera Zorina and Eddie Albert
* I Was an Adventuress (1940), starring Vera Zorina
* Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), a wartime morale booster for military troops
** "That Old Black Magic," sung by Johnny Johnston, danced by Vera Zorina
* Follow the Boys (1944), with Vera Zorina and George Raft

### For American Ballet Caravan

* Ballet Imperial (1941; renamed Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1973)
* Concerto Barocco (1941)

### For the Ballet del Teatro de Colón

* Mozart Violin Concerto (1942)

### For Ballet Theatre

* Waltz Academy (1944)
* Theme and Variations (1947)

### For Ballet Society

* The Four Temperaments (1946)
* L'enfant et Les Sortilèges (The Spellbound Child) (1946)
* Haieff Divertimento (1947)
* Symphonie Concertante (1947)
* Orpheus (1948)

### For the Paris Opera Ballet

* Palais de Cristal (1947, in 1948 restaged in Symphony in C)

### For Le Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas

* Pas de Trois Classique (also known as Minkus Pas de Trois) (1948)

### For New York City Ballet

* La Sonnambula (1946)
* Bourrée Fantasque (1949)
* The Firebird (1959; later revised with Jerome Robbins)
* Sylvia Pas De Deux (1950)
* Swan Lake (after Lev Ivanov) (1951)
* La Valse (1951)
* Harlequinade Pas De Deux (1952)
* Metamorphoses (1952)
* Caracole (1952)
* Scotch Symphony (1952)
* Valse Fantaisie (1953/1967)
* The Nutcracker (1954)
* Ivesiana (1954)
* Western Symphony (1954)
* Glinka Pas De Trois (1955)
* Pas De Dix (1955)
* Divertimento No. 15 (1956)
* Allegro Brillante (1956)
* Agon (1957)
* Square Dance (1957)
* Gounod Symphony (1958)
* Stars and Stripes (a ballet in five "campaigns") (1958)
* Episodes (1959)
* Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (1960)
* Monumentum pro Gesualdo (1960)
* Donizetti Variations (1960)
* Liebeslieder Walzer (1960)
* Raymonda Variations (1961)
* A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962)
* Bugaku (1963)
* Meditation (1963)
* Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1963)
* Harlequinade (1965)
* Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet (1966)
* Jewels (1967)
** Emeralds
** Rubies
** Diamonds
* La Source (1968)
* Who Cares? (1970)
* Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 (1970)
* Stravinsky Festival (1972)
** Pulcinella (with Jerome Robbins)
** Stravinsky Violin Concerto
** Symphony in Three Movements
** Duo Concertant
** Lost Sonata
** Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la fée"
** Choral Variations on Bach's "Vom Himmel Hoch"
** Danses Concertantes
** Scherzo Á La Russe
* Cortège Hongrois (1973)
* Coppélia (1974)
* Variations pour une porte et un soupir (1974)
* Ravel Festival (1975)
** Sonatine
** Tzigane
** Le tombeau de Couperin
** Pavane
** Shéhérazade
** Gaspard de la Nuit
** Rapsodie Espagnole
* The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1975)
* Chaconne (1976)
* Union Jack (1976)
* Vienna Waltzes (1977)
* Ballo della Regina (1978)
* Kammermusik No. 2 (1978)
* Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze (1980)
* Walpurgisnacht Ballet (1980)
* Tschaikovsky Festival (1981)
** Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty
** Mozartiana
* Stravinsky Centennial Celebration (1982)
** Élégie

### For New York City Opera

* Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1979)